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I explained how the scientific method is everything but circular (which is your claim). You clearly did not read it. Your willful anti-intellectualism is noted.I don't need a speech, Skavau, I'm asking you a simple yes-or-no question.
Your willful anti-intellectualism is noted.
It's also in my caption now --- under my name.
You're preaching to the choir.
Try it in Latin -- Deus Inscitia Est sounds more impressive, and conveys pretty much the same idea.
Is the principle of induction a scientific principle?
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The irony of this being said by a man using a computer...
Did you know the computer was invented by a Creationist?
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A creationist or a Christian? It may have been invented by a creationist, I don't know either way. However the principles behind the computer were discovered by scientists. If creationist is happy to use science in one field and deny it in another then he's a hypocrit.
Doesn't make your statement any less ironic though.
I'm pretty sure that I wrote some version of the first sentence, and that Pardis originally wrote the second. That was before they went through the sausage-making process, of course.As opposed to, say, "Homo sapiens, like all species, has been shaped by positive natural selection. As first articulated by Darwin and Wallace in 1858..."
That would be a fair conclusion.You'd be a bit of a TE, then...?
Translation: Waaah! I didn't want a well written, well reasoned response! You used big words and made sense! Stop it! Waaaah!I don't need a speech, Skavau, I'm asking you a simple yes-or-no question.
Did you know the computer was invented by a Creationist?
O RLY.Did you know the computer was invented by a Creationist?
talk.origins said:
- Babbage was a theistic evolutionist; indeed, he was one of the first to promote theistic evolution. He believed in a god who created "one general and comprehensive law, from which every visible form, both in the organic and inorganic world flows" (Babbage 1838, 50). Such a god, he thought, deserves more credit and glory than a god who intervenes in the course of creation. He cited with approval a letter in which Sir John Herschel proposes that the origination of new species "would be found to be a natural in contradistinction to a miraculous process" (Babbage 1838, 227).
Babbage also recognized and accepted that geological evidence indicates an old earth.In truth, the mass of evidence which combines to prove the great antiquity of the earth itself, is so irresistible, and so unshaken by any opposing facts, that none but those who are alike incapable of observing the facts, and of appreciating the reasoning, can for a moment conceive the present state of its surface to have been the result of only six thousand years of existence (Babbage 1838, 67-68).
By the way, can we expect your verse on atheists being secret nature-worshippers anytime soon?Wikipedia said:In 1837, responding to the Bridgewater Treatises, of which there were eight, he published his Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, "On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation", putting forward the thesis that God had the omnipotence and foresight to create as a divine legislator, making laws (or programs) which then produced species at the appropriate times, rather than continually interfering with ad hoc miracles each time a new species was required. The book is a work of natural theology, and incorporates extracts from correspondence he had been having with John Herschel on the subject.
Nope --- it's in English so everyone can know where I stand.
Did you know the computer was invented by a Creationist?
Does this Creationist have a name?
He probably means Charles Babbage, since he fits the description -- except that there are many others with at least as good a claim as Babbage, and of course he wasn't a creationist.Does this Creationist have a name?
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